That tracks actually.
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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What I get from simulation video games is that if I didn't have to worry about working to live and the daily grind of life, I'd work to get real-world experience doing stuff I may like.
I'd be succesful in governing countries and making them prosperous and free as fuck without being conquered.
Oh, and I also farm.
If video games determined our real world behavior,
I'd be a robot witnessing the fall of humanity, whose crime was free will
Don't know if that translates to a job necessarily
I guess I'm an immortal autocrat with foresight and pattern recognition good enough to be the global economy by the 16th century.
I play too much 4x.
I'd be an expert race car driver, or really good at parkour.
This just made me imagine a sport that contains both and it would be awesome, call it Guerrilla Valet.
In my case the bodies of my enemies would fuel my armies of the undead leaving a trail of blood and destruction behind me. If the first boss I encounter doesn't take me out.
I would sell so many organs
I'd be just at bad at poker as I am now, I think
If games determined my behavior, I would practically be Machiavelli.
A lot of Crusader Kings or assassin's Creed?
(I think in one of AC games you're actually doing missions for Machiavelli himself.)
No; I just do anything and everything I can to further my own strength and fuck everyone else because they're just NPCs.
Fair enough.
When given the option "spare him, or kill him", one has to ask "is he worth XP?"
I'd be a min-maxing hoarder that never used stuff. In all honestly, I should probably try to be more like that minus the hoarding.
I cant afford a spaceship though :(
Then I'd be pretty violent against demon invasions of our world. Or maybe I already am, don't really know how to test it out lol.
Halloween has literally just happened. How many demons did you slay?